Community Wealth Building and the Creative Industries

Community Wealth Building and Creative Industries Survey launches today.?

Creative Scotland, along with Community Enterprise, have developed a research project with the aim of supporting Scotland’s creative industries in developing a clearer understanding of the principles, opportunities and goals of the Scottish Governments Community Wealth Building agenda and identifying models of practice and exemplars that will support the creative and cultural sector in taking advantage of upcoming opportunities.?

Community Wealth Building (CWB) is a new people-centred approach to local economic development, which redirects wealth back into the local economy, and places control and benefits into the hands of local people.?The 5 pillars underpinning CWB are;?

1.?Plural ownership of the economy??

2.?Making financial power work for local places??

3.?Fair Employment and just labour markets??

4.?Progressive procurement of goods and services??

5.?Socially just use of land and property?

?For more information about the agenda, see here:?https://consult.gov.scot/economic-development/community-wealth-building-consultation/??

This survey will help to identify how organisations from the creative industries are:?

• Currently contributing to the CWB agenda?
• Where there are perceived opportunities?
• What are the perceived enablers and barriers

We would be very grateful if you could share the survey with organisations you feel would like to contribute to this research. The image below can be used for sharing on social media, and here is a short link to accompany it: https://bit.ly/CreativeCWB?

You can watch a video about the research here.